[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Digiital aka David]

Seems like it was all a hoax.
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/04/16/1646212/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax


On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Paul King <sciguy at vex.net> wrote:

> Maybe he was using Windows PowerShell, which has adopted a lot of UNIX-isms
> including  "rm" with recursive and force options. If it behaves anything
> like
> DEL with recursive and force options, it will traverse UPWARDS as well as
> DOWNWARDS in a directory tree (having been burned by that behaviour
> first-hand
> a few years ago).
>
> On 15 Apr 2016 at 12:47, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>
> > | From: Stephen <stephen-d at rogers.com>
> >
> > |
> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn
> >
> > About "rm -rf", the article says:
> >
> >       The code usually deleted specific parts of a server or
> >       computer, but because this code didn't have a specified
> >       target, it deleted everything.
> >
> > This isn't true of the rm(1) command.  No operand means delete nothing.
> >
> > The story does not ring true for other reasons.  But it could be.
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